Fig 2: Groups Company Logo

Proposal

Fig 1: Concept Car We are an interdisciplinary

team of four students of the
Computer and Electrical
SPONSOR Introduction Engineering Department of the
PROPOSAL The most talked about topic in our
Polytechnic University of Puerto
Rico in our final project of the
society now days is about engineering curriculum called
environmental issues and what capstone; the project required a
CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECT: changes can be done to go green. budget we can’t cover by
One of those issues is the excessive ourselves. Our project,
RECHARGE amount of fuel that is consumed. The
available commercial solution is to
RECHARGE SYSTEM FOR AN
ELECTRIC CAR, consists of a

SYSTEM buy a very expensive hybrid car or an

electric car, which are even harder
to obtain. Our purpose is to show
car that will run with an electric
motor and special batteries
showing that there is no need

FOR AN that electric cars are useful and

efficient and they are not hard to
build and to teach that with the right
to continue using fossil fuels.
The main goals of this project
are to have a fully functional
ELECTRIC tools and equipment a regular car
can be an electric car.
electric car that emits no
pollution and to teach people
about their advantages and
CAR POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
savings. Hopefully with this
project people will get inspire to
CAPSTONE DESIGN convert their regulars to
electric cars.
GISELLE ROSADO
Phone: 939-397-1287
grm.rosado@gmail.com
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Description
We are looking for a sponsor in interest in
funding en engineering project. This project
is currently in the implementing phase, and
requires very important components so
completion can be made. The car consists
of an electric motor, batteries, battery
chargers, controller, monitoring computer
and a household plug. Currently we are in
possession of the car, controller and
electric motor but in need of the other
components.
The batteries need to be Deep Cycle
12Volts and 110Ah, for charging and
endurance. Deep cycle batteries mean that
they can be discharged up to 80% of its
charge and recharged without damaging it.
A regular car battery cannot be used. The
battery chargers are SMART charger, this
means when they detect the battery is
Budget
ESTIMATED BUDGET
DESCRIPTION QUANTITY
DEEP CYCLE 12V BATTERIES 110Ah
DEEP CYCLE 12V BATTERIES 10Ah (CONTROL)
120AC TO 12V CHARGER (3 INPUTS)
METAL BASE FOR BATTERIES
MONITORING SYSTEMS
MISCELLANEOUS
charged it stops charging preventing
overcharged and damaging the battery and
demanding unnecessary power. Also with
this charger the batteries charged evenly
providing a fast charging time. The
Monitoring system consists of a computer
Fig 3: Battery Bank: 12V, 110A-h
that special sensors can be connected to it Deep Cycle Batteries
and to the batteries and displays the Eight Batteries for a total of 96V
voltage, current and temperature on a
monitor allowing to observe the charge
consumption and detect faults.
When the batteries, the charger and the
monitoring system are obtained, the next
step would be to mount everything in our
car, test and run it. In order to charge the
car, a simple 120Vac plug is connected to a
power outlet and the batteries are charged. Fig 4: Computer for the
Batteries’ Monitoring
System
UNIT PRICE COST Fig 5: Outcome
8 260 2080
1 100 100
3 200 600
1 300 300
1 1500 1500
N/A 500 500
SUB TOTAL 5080.00
SALES TAX 355.60
TOTAL 5435.60 Fig 6: Battery Charger